StartupNation Blogs

In the last post, I began the discussion about the Four Ps of Marketing: Product, Place, Price, and Promotion. Learning how to use each of these concepts effectively can greatly help the success your business. With the first of the Four Ps, Product, if your product fulfills a need or want, has either niche or [...]

Last week I explained how
important it was to become involved in your local communities by being
enlightened entrepreneurs. Your email newsletters can be powerful tools
in creating awareness for your favorite charity or non-profit
organization. Once you begin to hire employees, your company can create
a matched giving policy where you can encourage your employees to
donate to your business’s [...]

So, I had a meeting with my web developer.
I like to call him, Satan.
Satan asks me, "Don’t you have a weblog?" He adds just the right amount of sarcasm and pretentiousness to his rhetorical questions to boil my blood.
Now, I have heard of Lincoln logs, yule logs, and even cheese logs (which [...]

With all the advice I could possibly give you about your website, the one thing that is most overlooked is QUALITY CONTENT. If you make a bad product, you can't expect anyone to buy it. So why would you make a site full of unreadble, unrelevant, and unappealing content, and then expect anyone to read [...]

From Joan Isabella, StartupNation Radio consultant
I believe in cosmic communication. This is why I want you to know that I have been blogging to you in my mind– sending out bits and pieces of uncompleted thoughts telepathically that may interest you (just kidding!). Of course, I figured out along the way that you are [...]

The votes are in, and StartupNation has been deemed honorable by the readers of MarketingSherpa. We are honored to have been selected as one of 5 blogs to receive a special honorable mention designation.
This is pretty cool. We’ve only been blogging for a little over a year and the winner in the category of ‘Blogs [...]

Hey, speaking of love (see yesterday’s blog post), there has been a conversation going on in the StartupNation community about how music inspires us and is a necessary arrow in the entrepreneurial quiver. We’re dangerously close to launching a new StartupNation Community Podcast that will feature people and conversations happening in the StartupNation community.
One of [...]

We’ve been nominated!
MarketingSherpa, the extremely popular (their articles land in StartupNation email inboxes on a furiously regular basis) and powerful online marketing resource has included the StartupNation blog in their Reader’s Choice Awards 2006.
Vote for us!
But make sure you do it by midnight ET Monday June 26 when the polls close.
(insert politician’s speech-voice here …) [...]

Ever looked into a mirrored reflection of a mirror? Pretty cool, huh? Until you really look. I mean focus in on exactly what you’re looking at. My brain starts hurting after such an intense stare.
Well, this is kind of what’s happening to you right now. And it’s all a part of the online marketing strategy [...]